2 Toman - Naser al-Din Qajar

Naser al-Din Shah's reign saw persistent tension between Iran's traditional monetary system and European commercial pressure. The toman had long served as a unit of account rather than a consistently minted denomination, and gold coinage of this period was struck in relatively small quantities at the Tehran mint, which lacked the mechanized capacity of contemporary European facilities. Dies were frequently reused or recut, making exact attribution within a reign often difficult.

1876 falls within the period following the Shah's first European tour of 1873, which accelerated modernization efforts at court — including attempts to regularize coinage output.